THATCamp Open Street Map session anyone? OSM is a wiki-style map of the world that anyone can edit and it’s one of the few sources of free GIS data for many parts of our world.

This week there’s big news from the Open Street Map community as MapQuest launches their United States OSM collaboration at Open.Mapquest.com. This seems certain to attract a new crop of OSM contributors and editors to the 300,000 plus already working to crowdsource data that can be reused without restrictive copyright limitations.

Topic ideas for a THATCamp Virginia OSM discussion:

How can I contribute to OSM? What’s the workflow? Do I need to be a GIS expert or Cartographic Guru?

Take the new open.mapquest.com site for a spin and learn to edit some data in your neck of the woods.